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April 21, 2012
ADRENALIN TEAMS WITH QUANTUM SAILS
Teaming up with Quantum's Wally Cross and Jason Currie, skipper Jeff Maludy is looking forward to building a new team and learning his new Quantum inventory:"Quantum has done a great job. The designs look very fast. Now we need to synchronize our team." The 2012 Annapolis NOOD is next. Check out the photo page for a shot of Adrenalin from the cover of the 2010 NOOD program and the Sailing World article reporting the 2009 results.
This web site is a resource for the Adrenalin crew, family and friends.
I hope you enjoy the history below of Adrenalin USA 691, my background and especially my tribute to some of the great sailors who have helped me along the course of my sailing life. Many more than mentioned here have been good friends, crew and skippers. Their importance is not diminished by exclusion from the narrative below.
With the help of the creative team at Telltale, we built this interactive web site.
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Kind regards,
Jeff
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INTERVIEW WITH ADRENALIN'S SKIPPER,JEFF MALUDY:
WHY DID YOU BUY A FARR 30?
It's a long story...as all my stories are:
ADRENALIN USA 691
The Mumm 30 was renamed the Farr 30 after the original contract with Mumm Champagne ran out, replaced by a new one with Farr. Renamed the M30 briefly until negotiations finalized to name it, most appropriately, the Farr 30.USA 691 was built for Philippe Kahn's Pegasus Racing in 2000 by Ovington Boats Ltd, Great Britain.
http://www.pegasus.com/gallery/mumm30worlds2002.htm
GEORGE MALUDY
My father George started sailing as a teenager on a Malabar schooner racing out of Toledo Yacht Club with a retired British naval officer as paid captain. Everything buys the numbers. Flemish the lines when you coil them. Dad said our Greek ancestors must have been seafarers: it seemed to be in our blood. He built my first boat an Opti when I was 7 years old to sail on Devil's Lake (DLYC) in the Irish Hills region of southeastern Michigan.
Opti's in the 1950's were homebuilt out of one 4'x8' sheet of plywood. The Optimist was designed in 1947 by American Clark Mills in Clearwater, FL. There were no hills in Clearwater for the Soap-box Derby program the Optimist club sponsored nationwide. The program was developed to encourage father/son construction of gravity powered cars for down-hill competition. Clearwater had no hills so Mills designed a simple pram that could be built from a single sheet of plywood, and donated the plan to the Optimists. Today, the International Optimist is sailed in over 100 countries by over 160,000 skippers. It is the only yacht approved by the International Sailing Federation exclusively for sailors under 16. At the Beijing Olympics, 85% of medal winning skippers were former Optimist dinghy sailors.
I was too small at 7 years old to climb into that blue Opti myself, so Dad lifted me in (of course after putting on the classic and embarrassing orange horseshoe life jacket). If I could sail it past that corner dock post about 75 feet away, the Opti would be mine. BUT, it was directly to windward and I did not know how to sail. I could only manage to beam reach back and forth. My father calmly coaching me from the dock, as I cried. I wanted this Opti and I wasn't going to quit. Finally, I got the knack and slid past the dock post letting out a giant (for a 7 year old) cheer. I was a sailor...and not a quitter. Thanks Dad.
My father was a Lightning sailor, winning locally and regionally. On the world stage, Dad finished 6th at the Lightning Internationals in 1949 in Miami, FL. His heavy air skills overcame his borrowed suit of used cotton sails (read stretch when wet). Better yet, he had beaten his arch rivals from his hometown Toledo, OH: Walt Swindeman (8th) & Dick Krause (17th). Beating them was all the sweeter, because Walt & Dick were both two-time International Champions in the Lightning and the Dragon classes.
http://lightningclass.org/resources/yearbooks/1950s/1950/1950internationalChampionship.pdf
My father & I took a long break from sailing as he grew his business, which required a lot of travel. We started racing again when I was in high school: on a Cal 25, then Cal 2-30 (won some great heavy air races in that boat) and finally the hot C&C 35. We juiced its already huge kite with an 18" longer spinnaker pole. What a rocket downwind. By the way, did you know the fractionally rigged Farr 30 flies a masthead spinnaker from a pole 31" longer than the J.?
The pinnacle of racing with my father was in the summer of 1970 after my mother's unexpected death at 44 years old. In the greatest fresh water race in the world, the 1970 Port Huron to Mackinac Race 2nd in class & 6th overall. I was foredeck and trimmer) the following week, 1st Place overall with 3 bullets at the Little Traverse Bay Regatta. An Invitational Regatta for Mackinac Race winners (top 3 each division). My father and I raced a hot new design, the C&C 35 we christened The Great Pumpkin. Our bright orange hull was highlighted by a painting of Snoopy sailing his dog house with Woodstock as the lookout in the crow's nest. Woodstock may have been the key to our success. In the middle of Lake Huron surfing at 14-16 knots all day downwind in 25-30 kts of breeze, flying our massive kite. We did a horizon job on everyone around us and caught the big boats ahead. Only Lightning & Dragon International champion, Walt Swindeman in his new Cal 39. A downwind sled, the 39 was the descendant of the famous Cal 40.West coast and Transpac sailors know the Cal 40 well. As we were surfing with the heavier 50 & 60 footers. We caught a good luck charm. A worn out sparrow, blown out over the lake with nowhere to land except The Great Pumpkin. He perched on the stern pulpit a long time, but finally trusted us. Or his hunger drove him to hop across the deck and into the galley. We fed and watered him and he slept. Riding for hours with us as we surfed with the old school, heavy 50 & 60 footers outside Saginaw Bay. We were the 10th boat to finish in a fleet of 250 boats. We corrected to 2nd in class (by 1'29" to Chicago's Tom Jennings on Pied Piper) and 6th overall. We learned of this hot rod from Detroit sailor Pete O'Neil who sailed hull #1, swept the SORC earlier in the year. The SORC was the predecessor to Key West Race Week, but included long distance night racing (St Pete to Ft Lauderdale..."don't get too close to Cuba"). The summer of 1970 was after my mother Betty died. Dad and I raced The Great Pumpkin a lot. Racing with us several times that summer was Skip Boston of Boston Sails in Mt Clemens, MI. Skip was a close friend of my father's. I learned a lot from Skip that summer: an intense competitor and tireless perfectionist. He and my father taught me how to make a boat go fast, shift gears, sail trim and tactics. We sailed 35 footer like a dinghy. It took a 35 footer to hold those two 250lb plus, 5'2" guys.
My mother died unexpectedly that year, making the Great Pumpkin’s success bittersweet. Dad got out of racing for the next 20 years. My mother and I were also very close. Extremely intelligent, humanitarian and always the refined lady. I still miss her 40 years later. During the remaining summers of college, I was boat captain for a number of successful racing boats on Lake Erie, learning a lot from the pros the owners brought on board. The pros loved to teach and I was a sponge. They were surprised I could speak with them techniccally, not knowing of my engineering background what I soaked up from Bruce Nelson and Eric Schlageter
JEFF'S DINGHY BACKGROUND
After my three year hiatus for medical school and five years of post-doctoral training, I got back into racing. Of course joining the great Lightning class, returning to my dinghy origins and my father’s favorite boat. I grew up racing Opti's and FJ's as a junior sailor at North Club Yacht Club, winning the regional Carson’s Cup. In college at the University of Michigan, I was fortunate to crew with two successful skippers: both naval architecture students. They were very bright and I was not surprised at their success in yacht racing design of MORC, IOR and America’s Cup campaigns.
Bruce Nelson: a compact, strong and aggressive sailor pushing kinetics to the limits.
http://www.sailinganarchy.com/innerview/2003/brucenelson.htm
Eric Schlageter: my 5'8", 135 lbs. complemented Eric's 6'2" 200+ lbs. http://www.sailinganarchy.com/article.php?get=3326
After school and post-graduate training, I sailed Lightning’s at Devil's Lake Yacht Club in southeastern Michigan. I crewed with and then raced against sailing legend Bruce Goldsmith the "Bruin" (2 times Lightning World Champion, 2 times Pan Am Games Gold Medalist, and NA Champion in Thistles and Flying Scot). He was a legend and I mean a true legend. He was a great guy who was a natural at sailing; unlike the analytical Bruce Nelson & Eric Schlageter, who explained their racing decisions in detail. The Bruin just knew where the pressure or shift would be. I sailed many a leg with him looking bad most of the leg, to catch the pressure or shift and round in 1st, with a big lead. Afterwards, he knew how to have FUN. He won the regatta and he won the party. I can still hear him: "We were down at the bar having a few martinis..." Charismatic and quite the ladies’ man: "Your place or mine?"
LASZLO GODA and NORTH CAPE YACHT CLUB
Closer to home, I rejoined my junior sailing home, North Cape Yacht Club on western Lake Erie. I raced for years as tactician and trimmer with my best friend, Laszlo Goda. He is an icon every racer on Lake Erie knows by his countless trips to the podium to collect another 1st place flag. "...and First Place, Laszlo Goda on Splash Dance". In the background, Abba blasting from his cockpit speakers. His infamous Hungarian accent ("Hey, whatzjudoin"). Lazlo has had great success and the best guy to sail with, after my father and my son. Laszlo has been Lake Erie Boat of the year twice and has 5 deck-to-masthead strings of first place flags on his S2 9.1. He doesn't save the reds and yellows. Paul Hickman has played an important part in Laszlo's success in racing. A great sailor at any position, the voice of reason and experience. He works harder than most crew on most boats taking care of his skipper's boat. Paul is a great person, caring about others and always having something positive to say. I am proud to call Laszlo and Paul my best friends.
At NCYC, I also raced my Lightning and met my future tactician and mainsail trimmer, Rob Linden as a junior sailor. From the sailing news deep archive, filed under It's a Small World: Rob's step father, Tim Peterson, raced with me and my father on the Great Pumpkin in 1970.
NICK MALUDY & ROB LINDEN
Rob a top junior sailor at NCYC, raced occasionally with me and my son Nick on a succession of Lightning’s I owned. Rob's step father raced with me and my father on the Great Pumpkin in the early 70's during our college years. We raced together at the Devil's Lake Fall Regatta in 2000. This was the last Big regatta of the season. A lot of top sailors (North American and District champs such as Greg & Matt Fisher, Tom Allen, Dan Norton, Sean Fiddler, George Sipel, Craig Gabel) came to race against and party with the Bruin. Few could beat him on the race course or at the bar. My father had won it in 1949 against Lightning & Dragon International Champions Dick Krause, Hank Cawthra & Walt Swindeman. Walt was the old school predecessor of the Bruin, but with an enhancement. After Walt got fired up, he sang an endless collection of bawdy sailing songs.
The Bruin had made the DLYC Fall Regatta very popular: 30-40 boats including many of the top Lightning teams east of the Miscopy. My father won it in 1349, beating International Champions Hank Cawthra, Walt Swindeman and Dick Krause a second time. I had always wanted to do well in the fall classic. I did it at the 57th Regatta with junior sailor's Rob Linden & my son Nick finishing 4th, just a few points out of 1st. Thanks and CONGRATS to my son Nick, who had just learned to fly the spinnaker that summer. A posthumous thanks to my father & Skip Boston, the best chute trimmers and heavy air sailors I've known. Nick took a break from sailing during college, like I did during my post-grad training. It paid off for both of us with great jobs we LOVE. He is a computer programmer with a small, private company developing secret software for the Navy. Nick’s free time is rare with only two programmers: the head of the company and Nick. I hope we can coordinate our schedules to race more together. Nick is going to introduce me to ballooning.
THE FARR 30 CHAPTER
In 2006, I purchased Philippe’s USA 691, renaming her Adrenalin to exemplify what sailing and racing mean to him.
Our first regatta was the 2006 Toronto NOOD. Tom Babel, from Traverse City, MI was our sailing coach, tactician and all-around great guy. He was introducing us to racing a Farr 30 and regaling us with stories from his years in the Sheriff's Dept. My team and I felt right at home in the light and fluky winds typical of our home waters on Devil's Lake, MI and western Lake Erie. The competition was tough: and a second place by one point to Jim Richardson on Barking Mad. I met the Farr 40 World Champion on the lawn of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto. On the second day of the regatta, I was in 1st. The World Champion was gracious and congenial. There I stood in awe of a sailing Legend as he stood up to shake my hand in deference to our regatta lead. Jim and team came back to beat us by 1 point and win the regatta.
The winter of 2006 our team travelled to Miami for the Farr 30 World Championship. With sailing coach and tactician Tom Babel from Traverse City , MI With my team of Midwestern dinghy sailors, led by tactician and mainsail trimmer Rob Linden, we traveled to Farr 30 regattas in Miami, Newport, Annapolis, Buffalo and Youngstown on Lake Ontario (yes, there is a current on the Great Lakes). We wanted to learn by competing against the world class sailors in the Farr 30 fleet. Iconic legends such as 2010 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year nominee Jim Richardson: 2010 Farr 30 World Champion Jim has assembled and refined a truly world class team. Jim is a World Class Person and Sailor. I have known two of his crew: America's Cup Tactician Terry Hutchinson & Ace foredeck Curtis Florence (Farr 30 & Farr 40 World Champion). The best attracts the best. Jim is one of only two 3-time Farr 40 World Champions.
QUESTION:
Can you name the other one and what was special about his trio of wins? (Hint: home port Napoli, ITA. ANSWER three paragraphs below:
Our first season and first Mumm 30 World's in Miami 2006 showed we had a lot to learn. We finished a dismal 23rd. My father had taught me to not be overwhelmed by obstacles, even huge ones.
With determination to learn and compete at the world class level, my amateur crew of college dinghy sailors and I traveled too repeatedly to Annapolis and Newport and any other Farr 30 regattas we could. Our hard work (and fun) paid off at the 2008 Farr 30 World Championship in Newport, RI. We were the highest finishing Category 1 team (all amateurs, no ex-CAT 3's) finishing 7th in a fleet of 22. The other three amateur teams finished 20, 21 and 22. It was a heavy air regatta with winds averaging 25kts and gusts to 35 knots; we were hitting 15-18 knots downwind. Upwind, the lessons I learned from my father, at his best upwind in heavy air, coupled with just plain determination and HARD WORK by Rob to balance the main trim, helped guide us to round the first mark in 1st in three and the top 3 in four other of the 10 races. We were able to compete, at least upwind, in heavy air, with the best. But then downwind, the world class teams schooled us in "go big or go home" with their big kite downwind handling. I had a GREAT TIME. The happiest 7th place in my life. Rocketing downwind and in control upwind, I repeatedly shouted to my crew: "I love this boat, this why I bought a Farr 30."
Check the photos for one of our first place rounding’s just ahead of Deneen Demourkas on Groovederci, Farr 30 Class President and past NA Champion. Her husband John is broaching behind us.
ANSWER:
3 time Farr 40 World Champion Vincenzo Onorato of Naples, Italy sailing Mascolzone Latino won his trio consecutively.
Is that a sailing natural hat trick?
Vincenzo Onorato is the President of Mascolzone Latino, a sailing team he founded in 1993. His preparation, his passion and his determination allowed him to face new challenges. Achieving numerous successes has defined him and ML as one of the top teams in the world. A member of the Reale Yacht Club Canottieri Savoia, and representing his home town of Naples and all of Italy in two America’s Cup challenges (2003 and 2007). Born in 1957, the 53 year old Neapolitan, Vincenzo Onorato is above all a sailor. Another iconic Legend winning 6 World Championships as helmsman: 3 CONSECUTIVELY in the Farr40 Aclass (2006-2007-2008), and 1 each in the IMS (2000), Mumm30 (2000), and Sardinia Cup ISAF Offshore Team World Championship (2006).
JEFF'S YACHT CLUBS
DEVIL'S LAKE YACHT CLUB
http://devilslakeyachtclub.com/node/98
NORTH CAPE YACHT CLUB
http://www.ncyc.net/newncyc/history.cfm
JEFF'S LOCAL SAILING ICONS
BRUCE GOLDSMITH
2 times Lightning World Champion, 2 time Gold Medalist at the PanAm Games in the Lightning, and NA Champion in Thistles and Flying Scot
WISDOM FROM THE BRUIN
http://www.rebelsailor.com/psy.htm
http://www.rebelsailor.com/foot.htm
http://www.rebelsailor.com/trim.ht
ANNA TUNNICLIFFE
You may have recognized NCYC, because of the accomplishments of their Olympic Gold Medalist Anna Tunnicliffe. Anna is 2 time US Sailing's Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year (2008 & 2010) and 2 time ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year (2009 & 2011).Now world class match racer winning the 2012 Semaine Olympique Francaise De Voile with a DOMINATING 16--0 record.
http://annatunnicliffe.com/
SKIP DIEBALL
Or you may have read about Skip Die ball 2009 US SAILING Championship of Champions. I hope Skip can find some time to race with me so I can learn from the master.
Watch the master at work in these Lightning videos:
>UPWIND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6wsrnDi3uA&feature=related
>REACHING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxHNHj2ntQE&feature=related
>DOWNWIND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lGsMYx8ezI&feature=related
>ROLL TACKING
http://www.destinationonedesign.com/prep/index.aspx?chapter=
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